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THE BOOK OF THE SECRETS OF

ENOCH

THIS new fragment of early literature came to light through certain manuscripts
which were recently found in Russia and Servia and so far as is yet known has
been preserved only in Slavonic. Little is known of its origin except that in its
present form it was written somewhere about the beginning of the Christian era.
Its final editor was a Greek and the place of its composition Egypt. Its value lies
in the unquestioned influence which it has exerted on the writers of the New
Testament. Some of the dark passages of the latter being all but inexplicable
without its aid.

Although the very knowledge that such a book ever existed was lost for prob-
ably 1200 years, it nevertheless was much used by both Christian and heretic in
the early centuries and forms a most valuable document in any study of the forms
of early Christianity.

The writing appeals to the reader who thrills to lend wings to his thoughts and
fly to mystical realms. Here is a strange dramatization of eternity — with views on
Creation, Anthropology, and Ethics. As the world was made in six days, so its
history would be accomplished in 6,000 years (or 6,000,000 years), and this
would be followed by 1,000 years of rest (possibly when the balance of conflict-
ing moral forces has been struck and human life has reached the ideal state). At
its close would begin the 8th Eternal Day, when time should be no more.

CHAP. I

An account of the mechanism of the
world showing the machinery of the
sun and moon in operation. Astro-
nomy and an interesting ancient cal-
endar. See Chapter 15-17 also 21.
What the world was like before Cre-
ation, see Chapter 24. Chapter 26 is
especially picturesque. A unique ac-
count of how Satan was created
(Chapter 29.)

THERE was a wise man, a great ar-
tificer, and the Lord conceived love
for him and received him, that he
should behold the uppermost dwell-
ings and be an eye-witness of the
wise and great and inconceivable
and immutable realm of God
Almighty, of the very wonderful and
glorious and bright and many-eyed
station of the Lord's servants, and of
the inaccessible throne of the Lord,

and of the degrees and manifesta-
tions of the incorporeal hosts, and
of the ineffable ministration of the
multitude of the elements, and of the
various apparition and inexpressible
singing of the host of Cherubim, and
of the boundless light.

2 At that time, he said, when my
165th year was completed, I begat
my son Mathusal.

3 After this too I lived two hundred
years and completed of all the years
of my life three hundred and six-
ty-five years.

4 On the first day of the first month
I was in my house alone and was
resting on my couch and slept.

5 And when I was asleep, great dis-
tress came up into my heart, and I
was weeping with my eyes in sleep,
and I could not understand what this
distress was, or what would happen

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to me.

6 And there appeared to me two
men, exceeding big, so that I never
saw such on earth; their faces were
shining like the sun, their eyes too
were like a burning light, and from
their lips was fire coming forth with
clothing and singing of various
kinds in appearance purple, their
wings were brighter than gold, their
hands whiter than snow.

7 They were standing at the head of
my couch and began to call me by
my name.

8 And I arose from my sleep and
saw clearly those two men standing
in front of me.

9 And I saluted them and was
seized with fear and the appearance
of my face was changed from terror,
and those men said to me:

10 'Have courage, Enoch, do mot
fear; the eternal God sent us to thee,
and lo! thou shalt to-day ascend
with us into heaven, and thou shalt
tell thy sons and all thy household
all that they shall do without thee on
earth in thy house, and let no one
seek thee till the Lord return thee to
them.

11 And I made haste to obey them
and went out from my house, and
made to the doors, as it was ordered
me, and summoned my sons Mathus-
al and Regim and Gaidad and made
known to them all the marvels those
men had told me.

CHAP. II

The Instruction. How Enoch in-
structed his sons.

LISTEN to me, my children, I know
not whither I go, or what will befall
me; now therefore, my children, I
tell you: turn not from God before
the face of the vain, who made not

Heaven and earth, for these shall
perish and those who worship them,
and may the Lord make confident
your hearts in the fear of him. And
now, my children, let no one think
to seek me, until the Lord return me
to you.

CHAP. Ill

Of Enoch's assumption; how the
angels took him into the first heav-
en.

IT came to pass, when Enoch had
told his sons, that the angels took
him on to their wings and bore him
up on to the first heaven and placed
him on the clouds. And there I
looked, and again I looked higher,
and saw the ether, and they placed
me on the first heaven and showed
me a very great Sea, greater than the
earthly sea.

CHAP. IV
Of the Angels ruling the stars.
THEY brought before my face the
elders and rulers of the stellar or-
ders, and showed me two hundred
angels, who rule the stars and their
services to the heavens, and fly with
their wings and come round all those
who sail.

CHAP. V

Of how the Angels keep the store-
houses of the snow.

AND here I looked down and saw
the treasure-houses of the snow, and
the angels who keep their terrible
store-houses, and the clouds whence
they come out and into which they
go-

CHAP. VI

Of the dew and of the olive-oil, and
various flowers.

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THEY showed me the treas-
ure-house of the dew, like oil of the
olive, and the appearance of its
form, as of all the flowers of the
earth; further many angels guarding
the treasure-houses of these things,
and how they are made to shut and
open.

CHAP. VII

Of how Enoch was taken on to the
second heaven.

AND those men took me and led me
up on to the second heaven, and
showed me darkness, greater than
earthly darkness, and there I saw
prisoners hanging, watched, await-
ing the great and boundless judge-
ment, and these angels were dark-
looking, more than earthly darkness,
and incessantly making weeping
through all hours.

2 And I said to the men who were
with me: 'Wherefore are these in-
cessantly tortured?' they answered
me: 'These are God's apostates, who
obeyed not God's commands, but
took counsel with their own will,
and turned away with their prince,
who also is fastened on the fifth
heaven.'

3 And I felt great pity for them, and
they saluted me, and said to me:
'Man of God, pray for us to the
Lord'; and I answered to them: 'Who
am I, a mortal man, that I should
pray for angels? who knoweth
whither I go, or what will befall me?
or who will pray for me?'

CHAP. VIII

Of the assumption of Enoch to the
third heaven.

AND those men took me thence,
and led me up on to the third heav-
en, and placed me there; and I

looked downwards, and san the pro-
duce of these places, such as has
never been known for goodness.

2 And I saw all the sweet-flowering
trees and beheld their fruits, which
were sweet-smelling, and all the
foods borne by them bubbling with
fragrant exhalation.

3 And in the midst of the trees that
of life, in that place whereon the
Lord rests, when he goes up into
paradise; and this tree is of ineffable
goodness and fragrance, and ad-
orned more than every existing
thing; and on all sides it is in form
gold-looking and vermilion and fire-
like and covers all, and it has pro-
duce from all fruits.

4 Its root is in the garden at the
earth's end.

5 And paradise is between corrupt-
ibility and incorruptibility.

6 And two springs come out which
send forth honey and milk, and their
springs send forth oil and wine, and
they separate into four parts, and go
round with quiet course, and go
down into the PARADISE OF
EDEN, between corruptibility and in
corruptibility.

7 And thence they go forth along
the earth, and have a revolution to
their circle even as other elements.

8 And here there is no unfruitful
tree, and every place is blessed.

9 And there are three hundred an-
gels very bright, who keep the
garden, and with incessant sweet
singing and never-silent voices
serve the Lord throughout all days
and hours.

10 And I said: 'How very sweet is
this place,' and those men said to
me:

CHAP. IX

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The showing to Enoch of the place
of the righteous and compassionate .

THIS place, O Enoch, is prepared
for the righteous, who endure all
manner of offence from those that
exasperate their souls, who avert
their eyes from iniquity, and make
righteous judgement, and give bread
to the hungering, and cover the na-
ked with clothing, and raise up the
fallen, and help injured orphans, and
who walk without fault before the
face of the Lord, and serve him
alone, and for them is prepared this
place for eternal inheritance.

CHAP. X

Here they showed Enoch the ter-
rible place and various tortures.

AND those two men led me upon to
the Northern side, and showed me
there a very terrible place, and there
were all manner of tortures in that
place: cruel darkness and unil-
lumined gloom, and there is no light
there, but murky fire constantly
flameth aloft, and there is a fiery
river coming forth, and that whole
place is everywhere fire, and every-
where there is frost and ice, thirst
and shivering, while the bonds are
very cruel, and the angels fearful
and merciless, bearing angry
weapons, merciless torture, and I
said:

2 'Woe, woe, how very terrible is
this place.'

3 And those men said to me: This
place, O Enoch, is prepared for
those who dishonour God, who on
earth practise sin against nature,
which is child-corruption after the
sodomitic fashion, magic-making,
enchantments and devilish witch-
crafts, and who boast of their
wicked deeds, stealing, lies, calum-

nies, envy, rancour, fornication,
murder, and who, accursed, steal the
souls of men, who, seeing the poor
take away their goods and them-
selves wax rich, injuring them for
other men's goods; who being able
to satisfy the empty, made the hun-
gering to die; being able to clothe,
stripped the naked; and who knew
not their creator, and bowed down to
soulless (sc. lifeless) Gods, who
cannot see nor hear, vain gods, who
also built hewn images and bow
down to unclean handiwork, for all
these is prepared this place amongst
these, for eternal inheritance.

CHAP. XI

Here they took Enoch up on to the
fourth heaven where is the course of
sun and moon.

THOSE men took me, and led me
up on to the fourth heaven, and
showed me all the successive go-
ings, and all the rays of the light of
sun and moon.

2 And I measured their goings and
compared their light, and saw that
the sun's light is greater than the
moon's.

3 Its circle and the wheels on which
it goes always, like a wind going
past with very marvellous speed,
and day and night it has no rest.

4 Its passage and return are accom-
panied by four great stars, and each
star has under it a thousand stars, to
the right of the sun's wheel, and by
four to the left, each having under it
a thousand stars, altogether eight
thousand, issuing with the sun con-
tinually.

5 And by day fifteen myriads of an-
gels attend it, and by night a thou-
sand.

6 And six-winged ones issue with

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the angels before the sun's wheel
into the fiery flames, and a hundred
angels kindle the sun and set it
alight.

CHAP. XII

Of the very marvellous elements of
the sun.

AND I looked and saw other flying
elements of the sun, whose names
are Phoenixes and Chalkydri, mar-
vellous and wonderful, with feet and
tails in the form of a lion, and a cro-
codile's head, their appearance is
empurpled, like the rainbow; their
size is nine hundred measures, their
wings are like those of angels, each
has twelve, and they attend and ac-
company the sun, bearing heat and
dew, as it is ordered them from God.

2 Thus the sun revolves and goes,
and rises under the heaven, and its
course goes under the earth with the
light of its rays incessantly.

CHAP. XIII

The angels took Enoch and placed
him in the east at the sun's gates.

THOSE men bore me away to the
east, and placed me at the sun's
gates, where the sun goes forth ac-
cording to the regulation of the sea-
sons and the circuit of the months of
the whole year, and the number of
the hours day and night,

2 And I saw six gates open, each
gate having sixty-one stadia and a
quarter of one stadium, and I meas-
ured them truly, and understood
their size to be so much, through
which the sun goes forth, and goes
to the west, and is made even, and
rises throughout all the months, and
turns back again from the six gates
according to the succession of the
seasons; thus the period of the

whole year is finished after the re-
turns of the four seasons,

CHAP. XIV
They took Enoch to the West.

AND again those men led me away
to the western parts, and showed me
six great gates open corresponding
to the Eastern gates, opposite to
where the sun sets, according to the
number of the days three hundred
and sixty-five and a quarter.

2 Thus again it goes down to the
western gates, and draws away its
light, the greatness of its brightness,
under the earth; for since the crown
of its shining is in heaven with the
Lord, and guarded [by four hundred
angels, while the sun goes round on
wheel under the earth, and stands
seven great hours in night, and
spends half its course under the
earth, when it comes to the eastern
approach in the eighth hour of the
night, it brings its lights, and the
crown of shining, and the sun flames
forth more than fire.

CHAP. XV

The elements of the sun, the
Phoenixes and Chalkydri broke into
song.

THEN the elements of the sun,
called Phoenixes and Chalkydri
break into song, therefore every bird
flutters with its wings, rejoicing at
the giver of light, and they broke
into song at the command of the
Lord.

2 The giver of light comes to give
brightness to the whole world, and
the morning guard takes shape,
which is the rays of the sun, and the
sun of the earth goes out, and re-
ceives its brightness to light up the
whole face of the earth, and they

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showed me this calculation of the
sun's going.

3 And the gates which it enters,
these are the great gates of the com-
putation of the hours of the year; for
this reason the sun is a great cre-
ation, whose circuit lasts twenty-
eight years, and begins again from
the beginning.

CHAP. XVI

They took Enoch and again placed
him in the east at the course of the
moon.

THOSE men showed me the other
course, that of the moon, twelve
great gates, crowned from west to
east, by which the moon goes in and
out of the customary times.

2 It goes in at the first gate to the
western places of the sun, by the
first gates with thirty-one days ex-
actly, by the second gates with
thirty-one days exactly, by the third
with thirty days exactly, by the
fourth with thirty days exactly, by
the fifth with thirty-one days ex-
actly, by the sixth with thirty-one
days exactly, by the seventh with
thirty days exactly, by the eighth
with thirty-one days perfectly, by
the ninth with thirty-one days ex-
actly, by the tenth with thirty days
perfectly, by the eleventh with
thirty-one days exactly, by the
twelfth with twenty-eight days ex-
actly.

3 And it goes through the western
gates in the order and number of the
eastern, and accomplishes the three
hundred and sixty-five and a quarter
days of the solar year, while the lun-
ar year has three hundred and fifty-
four, and there are wanting to it
twelve days of the solar circle,
which are the lunar epacts of the

whole year.

4 [Thus, too, the great circle con-
tains five hundred and thirty-two
years.]

5 The quarter of a day is omitted
for three years, the fourth fulfils it
exactly.

6 Therefore they are taken outside
of heaven for three years and are not
added to the number of days, be-
cause they change the time of the
years to two new months towards
completion, to two others towards
diminution.

7 And when the western gates are
finished, it returns and goes to the
eastern to the lights, and goes thus
day and night about the heavenly
circles, lower than all circles,
swifter than the heavenly winds, and
spirits and elements and angels fly-
ing; each angel has six wings.

8 It has a sevenfold course in nine-
teen years.

CHAP. XVII

Of the singings of the angels, which
it is impossible to describe.

IN the midst of the heavens I saw
armed soldiers, serving the Lord,
with tympana and organs, with in-
cessant voice, with sweet voice,
with sweet and incessant voice and
various singing, which it is im-
possible to describe, and which as-
tonishes every mind, so wonderful
and marvellous is the singing of
those angels, and I was delighted
listening to it.

CHAP. XVIII

Of the taking of Enoch on to the
fifth heaven.

THE men took me on to the fifth
heaven and placed me, and there I
saw many and countless soldiers,

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called Grigori, of human appear-
ance, and their size was greater than
that of great giants and their faces
withered, and the silence of their
mouths perpetual, and there was no
service on the fifth heaven, and I
said to the men who were with me:

2 Wherefore are these very
withered and their faces melancholy,
and their mouths silent, and where-
fore is there no service on this heav-
en?

3 And they said to me: These are
the Grigori, who with their prince
Satanail rejected the Lord of light,
and after them are those who are
held in great darkness on the second
heaven, and three of them went
down on to earth from the Lord's
throne, to the place Ermon, and
broke through their vows on the
shoulder of the hill Ermon and saw
the daughters of men how good they
are, and took to themselves wives,
and befouled the earth with their
deeds, who in all times of their age
made lawlessness and mixing, and
giants are born and marvellous big
men and great enmity.

4 And therefore God judged them
with great judgement, and they weep
for their brethren and they will be
punished on the Lord's great day.

5 And I said to the Grigori: T saw
your brethren and their works, and
their great torments, and I prayed
for them, but the Lord has con-
demned them to be under earth till
heaven and earth shall end for ever.'

6 And I said: 'Wherefore do you
wait, brethren, and do not serve be-
fore the Lord's face, and have not
put your services before the Lord's
face, lest you anger your Lord ut-
terly?'

7 And they listened to my admoni-

tion, and spoke to the four ranks in
heaven, and lo! as I stood with those
two men four trumpets trumpeted to-
gether with great voice, and the
Grigori broke into song with one
voice, and their voice went up be-
fore the Lord pitifully and affect-
ingly.

CHAP. XIX

Of the taking of Enoch on to the
sixth heaven.

AND thence those men took me and
bore me up on to the sixth heaven,
and there I saw seven bands of an-
gels, very bright and very glorious,
and their faces shining more than
the sun's shining, glistening, and
there is no difference in their faces,
or behaviour, or manner of dress;
and these make the orders, and learn
the goings of the stars, and the al-
teration of the moon, or revolution
of the sun, and the good government
of the world.

2 And when they see evildoing they
make commandments and instruc-
tion, and sweet and loud singing,
and all songs of praise.

3 These are the archangels who are
above angels, measure all life in
heaven and on earth, and the angels
who are appointed over seasons and
years, the angels who are over rivers
and sea, and who are over the fruits
of the earth, and the angels who are
over every grass, giving food to all,
to every living thing, and the angels
who write all the souls of men, and
all their deeds, and their lives be-
fore the Lord's face; in their midst
are six Phoenixes and six Cherubim
and six six-winged ones continually
with one voice singing one voice,
and it is not possible to describe
their singing, and they rejoice be-

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fore the Lord at his footstool.

CHAP. XX
Hence they took Enoch into the
Seventh Heaven.

AND those two men lifted me up
thence on to the seventh Heaven,
and I saw there a very great light,
and fiery troops of great archangels,
incorporeal forces, and dominions,
orders and governments, cherubim
and seraphim, thrones and many-
eyed ones, nine regiments, the Ioanit
stations of light, and I became
afraid, and began to tremble with
great terror, and those men took me,
and led me after them, and said to
me:

2 'Have courage, Enoch, do not
fear,' and showed me the Lord from
afar, sitting on His very high throne.
For what is there on the tenth heav-
en, since the Lord dwells here?

3 On the tenth heaven is God, in the
Hebrew tongue he is called Aravat.

4 And all the heavenly troops
would come and stand on the ten
steps according to their rank, and
would bow down to the Lord, and
would again go to their places in joy
and felicity, singing songs in the
boundless light with small and
tender voices, gloriously serving
him.

CHAP. XXI

Of how the angels here left Enoch,
at the end of the seventh Heaven,
and went away from him unseen.

AND the cherubim and seraphim
standing about the throne, the six-
winged and many-eyed ones do not
depart, standing before the Lord's
face doing his will, and cover his
whole throne, singing with gentle
voice before the Lord's face: 'Holy,

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holy, holy, Lord Ruler of Sabaoth,
heavens and earth are full of Thy
glory.'

2 When I saw all these things, those
men said to me: 'Enoch, thus far is it
commanded us to journey with thee,'
and those men went away from me
and thereupon I saw them not.

3 And I remained alone at the end
of the seventh heaven and became
afraid, and fell on my face and said
to myself: 'Woe is me, what has be-
fallen me?'

4 And the Lord sent one of his glor-
ious ones, the archangel Gabriel,
and he said to me: 'Have courage,
Enoch, do not fear, arise before the
Lord's face into eternity, arise, come
with me.'

5 And I answered him, and said in
myself: 'My Lord, my soul is depar-
ted from me, from terror and trem-
bling,' and I called to the men who
led me up to this place, on them I
relied, and it is with them I go be-
fore the Lord's face.

6 And Gabriel caught me up, as a
leaf caught up by the wind, and
placed me before the Lord's face.

7 And I saw the eighth Heaven,
which is called in the Hebrew
tongue Muzaloth, changer of the
seasons, of drought, and of wet, and
of the twelve signs of the zodiac,
which are above the seventh Heav-
en.

8 And I saw the ninth Heaven,
which is called in Hebrew
Kuchavim, where are the heavenly
homes of the twelve signs of the zo-
diac.

CHAP. XXII

In the tenth Heaven the archangel
Michael led Enoch to before the
Lord's face.

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ON the tenth Heaven, Aravoth, I
saw the appearance of the Lord's
face, like iron made to glow in fire,
and brought out, emitting sparks,
and it burns.

2 Thus I saw the Lord's face, but
the Lord's face is ineffable, marvel-
lous and very awful, and very, very
terrible.

3 And who am I to tell of the Lord's
unspeakable being, and of his very
wonderful face? And I cannot tell
the quantity of his many instruc-
tions, and various voices, the Lord's
throne very great and not made with
hands, nor the quantity of those
standing round him, troops of cher-
ubim and seraphim, nor their incess-
ant singing, nor his immutable
beauty, and who shall tell of the in-
effable greatness of his glory?

4 And I fell prone and bowed down
to the Lord, and the Lord with his
lips said to me:

5 'Have courage, Enoch, do not
fear, arise and stand before my face
into eternity.'

6 And the archistratege Michael lif-
ted me up, and led me to before the
Lord's face.

7 And the Lord said to his servants
tempting them: 'Let Enoch stand be-
fore my face into eternity,' and the
glorious ones bowed down to the
Lord, and said: 'Let Enoch go ac-
cording to Thy word.'

8 And the Lord said to Michael: 'Go
and take Enoch from out his earthly
garments, and anoint him with my
sweet ointment, and put him into the
garments of My glory.'

9 And Michael did thus, as the Lord
told him. He anointed me, and
dressed me, and the appearance of
that ointment is more than the great
light, and his ointment is like sweet

dew, and its smell mild, shining like
the sun's ray, and I looked at myself,
and was like one of his glorious
ones.

10 And the Lord summoned one of
his archangels by name Pravuil,
whose knowledge was quicker in
wisdom than the other archangels,
who wrote all the deeds of the Lord;
and the Lord said to Pravuil:

11 'Bring out the books from my
store-houses, and a reed of quick-
writing, and give it to Enoch, and
deliver to him the choice and com-
forting books out of thy hand.'

CHAP. XXIII

Of Enoch's writing, how he wrote
his wonderful journeyings and the
heavenly apparitions and himself
wrote three hundred and sixty-six
books.

AND he was telling me all the
works of heaven, earth and sea, and
all the elements, their passages and
goings, and the thunderings of the
thunders, the sun and moon, the go-
ings and changes of the stars, the
seasons, years, days, and hours, the
risings of the wind, the numbers of
the angels, and the formation of
their songs, and all human things,
the tongue of every human song and
life, the commandments, instruc-
tions, and sweet-voiced singings,
and all things that it is fitting to
learn.

2 And Pravuil told me: 'All the
things that I have told thee, we have
written. Sit and write all the souls
of mankind, however many of them
are born, and the places prepared for
them to eternity; for all souls are
prepared to eternity, before the
formation of the world.'

3 And all double thirty days and

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thirty nights, and I wrote out all
things exactly, and wrote three hun-
dred and sixty-six books.

CHAP. XXIV

Of the great secrets of God, which
God revealed and told to Enoch,
and spoke with him face to face.

AND the Lord summoned me, and
said to me: 'Enoch, sit down on my
left with Gabriel.'

2 And I bowed down to the Lord,
and the Lord spoke to me: Enoch,
beloved, all thou seest, all things
that are standing finished I tell to
thee even before the very beginning,
all that I created from non-being,
and visible things from invisible.

3 Hear, Enoch, and take in these my
words, for not to My angels have I
told my secret, and I have not told
them their rise, nor my endless
realm, nor have they understood my
creating, which I tell thee to-day.

4 For before all things were visible,
I alone used to go about in the invis-
ible things, like the sun from east to
west, and from west to east.

5 But even the sun has peace in it-
self, while I found no peace, be-
cause I was creating all things, and I
conceived the thought of placing
foundations, and of creating visible
creation.

CHAP. XXV
God relates to Enoch, how out of
the very lowest darkness comes
down the visible and invisible.

1 COMMANDED in the very lowest
parts, that visible things should
come down from invisible, and Ad-
oil came down very great, and I be-
held him, and lo! he had a belly of
great light.

2 And I said to him: 'Become un-

done, Adoil, and let the visible come
out of thee.'

3 And he came undone, and a great
light came out. And I was in the
midst of the great light, and as there
is born light from light, there came
forth a great age, and showed all
creation, which I had thought to cre-
ate.

4 And I saw that it was good.

5 And I placed for myself a throne,
and took my seat on it, and said to
the light: 'Go thou up higher and fix
thyself high above the throne, and
be a foundation to the highest
things.'

6 And above the light there is noth-
ing else, and then I bent up and
looked up from my throne.

CHAP. XXVI

God summons from the very lowest
a second time that Archas, heavy
and very red should come forth.

AND I summoned the very lowest a
second time, and said: 'Let Archas
come forth hard,' and he came forth
hard from the invisible.

2 And Archas came forth, hard,
heavy, and very red.

3 And I said: 'Be opened, Archas,
and let there be born from thee,' and
he came undone, an age came forth,
very great and very dark, bearing
the creation of all lower things, and
I saw that it was good and said to
him:

4 'Go thou down below, and make
thyself firm, and be for a foundation
for the lower things,' and it
happened and he went down and
fixed himself, and became the
foundation for the lower things, and
below the darkness there is nothing
else.

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CHAP. XXVII

Of how God founded the water, and
surrounded it with light, and estab-
lished on it seven islands.

AND I commanded that there
should be taken from light and dark-
ness, and I said: 'Be thick,' and it
became thus

and I spread it out with the light,
and it became water, and I spread it
out over the darkness, below the
light, and then I made firm the wa-
ters, that is to say

p. 91

the bottomless, and I made founda-
tion of light around the water, and
created seven circles from inside,
and imaged it (sc. the water) like
crystal wet and dry, that is to say
like glass, and the circumcession of
the waters and the other elements,
and I showed each one of them its
road, and the seven stars each one of
them in its heaven, that they go
thus, and I saw that it was good.

2 And I separated between light and
between darkness, that is to say in
the midst of the water hither and
thither, and I said to the light, that it
should be the day, and to the dark-
ness, that it should be the night, and
there was evening and there was
morning the first day.

CHAP. XXVIII

The week in which God showed
Enoch all his wisdom and power,
throughout all the seven days, how
he created all the heavenly and
earthly forces and all moving things
even down to man.

AND then I made firm the heavenly
circle, and made that the lower wa-
ter which is under heaven collect it-
self together, into one whole, and
that the chaos become dry, and it be-

came so.

2 Out of the waves I created rock
hard and big, and from the rock I
piled up the dry, and the dry I called
earth, and the midst of the earth I
called abyss, that is to say the bot-
tomless, I collected the sea in one
place and bound it together with a
yoke.

3 And I said to the sea: 'Behold I
give thee thy eternal limits, and thou
shalt not break loose from thy com-
ponent parts.'

4 Thus I made fast the firmament.
This day I called me the first-cre-
ated.

CHAP. XXIX

Then it became evening, and then
again morning, and it was the
second day. [Monday is the first
day.] The fiery Essence.

AND for all the heavenly troops I
imaged the image and essence of
fire, and my eye looked at the very
hard, firm rock, and from the gleam
of my eye the lightning received its
wonderful nature, which is both fire
in water and water in fire, and one
does not put out the other, nor does
the one dry up the other, therefore
the lightning is brighter than the
sun, softer than water and firmer
than hard rock.

2 And from the rock I cut off a
great fire, and from the fire I cre-
ated the orders of the incorporeal
ten troops of angels, and their
weapons are fiery and their raiment
a burning flame, and I commanded
that each one should stand in his or-
der.

Here Satanail with his angels was
thrown down from the height.

3 And one from out the order of an-
gels, having turned away with the

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order that was under him, conceived
an impossible thought, to place his
throne higher than the clouds above
the earth, that he might become
equal in rank to my power.
4 And I threw him out from the
height with his angels, and he was
flying in the air continuously above
the bottomless.

CHAP. XXX

And then I created all the heavens,
and the third day was, [Tuesday.]

ON the third day I commanded the
earth to make grow great and fruit-
ful trees, and hills, and seed to sow,
and I planted Paradise, and enclosed
it, and placed as armed guardians
flaming angels, and thus I created
renewal.

2 Then came evening, and came
morning the fourth day.

3 [Wednesday]. On the fourth day I
commanded that there should be
great lights on the heavenly circles.

4 On the first uppermost circle I
placed the stars, Kruno, and on the
second Aphrodit, on the third Aris,
on the fifth Zeus, on the sixth Er-
mis, on the seventh lesser the moon,
and adorned it with the lesser stars.

5 And on the lower I placed the sun
for the illumination of day, and the
moon and stars for the illumination
of night.

6 The sun that it should go accord-
ing to each animal (sc. signs of the
zodiac), twelve, and I appointed the
succession of the months and their
names and lives, their thunderings,
and their hour-markings, how they
should succeed.

7 Then evening came and morning
came the fifth day.

8 [Thursday]. On the fifth day I
commanded the sea, that it should

bring forth fishes, and feathered
birds of many varieties, and all an-
imals creeping over the earth, going
forth over the earth on four legs,
and soaring in the air, male sex and
female, and every soul breathing the
spirit of life.

9 And there came evening, and
there came morning the sixth day.

10 [Friday]. On the sixth day I
commanded my wisdom to create
man from seven consistencies: one,
his flesh from the earth; two, his
blood from the dew; three, his eyes
from the sun; four, his bones from
stone; five, his intelligence from the
swiftness of the angels and from
cloud; six, his veins and his hair
from the grass of the earth; seven,
his soul from my breath and from
the wind.

11 And I gave him seven natures: to
the flesh hearing, the eyes for sight,
to the soul smell, the veins for
touch, the blood for taste, the bones
for endurance, to the intelligence
sweetness (sc. enjoyment).

12 I conceived a cunning saying to
say, I created man from invisible
and from visible nature, of both are
his death and life and image, he
knows speech like some created
thing, small in greatness and again
great in smallness, and I placed him
on earth, a second angel, honour-
able, great and glorious, and I ap-
pointed him as ruler to rule on earth
and to have my wisdom, and there
was none like him of earth of all my
existing creatures.

13 And I appointed him a name,
from the four component parts, from
east, from west, from south, from
north, and I appointed for him four
special stars, and I called his name
Adam, and showed him the two

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ways, the light and the darkness,
and I told him:

14 'This is good, and that bad,' that
I should learn whether he has love
towards me, or hatred, that it be
clear which in his race love me.

15 For I have seen his nature, but
he has not seen his own nature,
therefore through not seeing he will
sin worse, and I said 'After sin what
is there but death?'

16 And I put sleep into him and he
fell asleep. And I took from him a
rib, and created him a wife, that
death should come to him by his
wife, and I took his last word and
called her name mother, that is to
say, Eva.

CHAP. XXXI

God gives over paradise to Adam,
and gives him a command to see the
heavens opened, and that he should
see the angels singing the song of
victory.

ADAM has life on earth, and I cre-
ated a garden in Eden in the east,
that he should observe the testament
and keep the command.

2 I made the heavens open to him,
that he should see the angels singing
the song of victory, and the gloom-
less light.

3 And he was continuously in para-
dise, and the devil understood that I
wanted to create another world, be-
cause Adam was lord on earth, to
rule and control it.

4 The devil is the evil spirit of the
lower places, as a fugitive he made
Sotona from the heavens as his name
was Satanail, thus he became differ-
ent from the angels, but his nature
did not change his intelligence as
far as his understanding of righteous
and sinful things.

5 And he understood his condemna-
tion and the sin which he had sinned
before, therefore he conceived
thought against Adam, in such form
he entered and seduced Eva, but did
not touch Adam.

6 But I cursed ignorance, but what I
had blessed previously, those I did
not curse, I cursed not man, nor the
earth, nor other creatures, but man's
evil fruit, and his works.

CHAP. XXXII
After Adam's sin God sends him
away into the earth 'whence I took
thee, ' but does not wish to ruin him
for all years to come.

1 SAID to him: 'Earth thou art, and
into the earth whence I took thee
thou shalt go, and I will not ruin
thee, but send thee whence I took
thee.

2 Then I can again take thee at My
second coming!

3 And I blessed all my creatures
visible and invisible. And Adam was
five and half hours in paradise.

4 And I blessed the seventh day,
which is the Sabbath, on which he
rested from all his works.

CHAP. XXXIII

God shows Enoch the age of this
world, its existence of seven thou-
sand years, and the eighth thousand
is the end, neither years, nor
months, nor weeks, nor days.

AND I appointed the eighth day
also, that the eighth day should be
the first-created after my work, and
that the first seven revolve in the
form of the seventh thousand, and
that at the beginning of the eighth
thousand there should be a time of
not-counting, endless, with neither
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days nor hours.

2 And now, Enoch, all that I have
told thee, all that thou hast under-
stood, all that thou hast seen of
heavenly things, all that thou hast
seen on earth, and all that I have
written in books by my great wis-
dom, all these things I have devised
and created from the uppermost
foundation to the lower and to the
end, and there is no counsellor nor
inheritor to my creations.

3 I am self-eternal, not made with
hands, and without change.

4 My thought is my counsellor, my
wisdom and my word are made, and
my eyes observe all things how they
stand here and tremble with terror.

5 If I turn away my face, then all
things will be destroyed.

6 And apply thy mind, Enoch, and
know him who is speaking to thee,
and take thou the books which thou
thyself hast written.

7 And I give thee Samuil and
Raguil, who led thee up, and the
books, and go down to earth, and
tell thy sons all that I have told
thee, and all that thou hast seen,
from the lower heaven up to my
throne, and all the troops.

8 For I created all forces, and there
is none that resisteth me or that does
not subject himself to me. For all
subject themselves to my monarchy,
and labour for my sole rule.

9 Give them the books of the hand-
writing, and they will read them and
will know me for the creator of all
things, and will understand how
there is no other God but me.

10 And let them distribute the
books of thy handwriting — children
to children, generation to genera-
tion, nations to nations.

11 And I will give thee, Enoch, my

intercessor, the archistratege Mi-
chael, for the handwritings of thy
fathers Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan,
Mahaleleel, and Jared thy father.

CHAP. XXXIV

God convicts the idolaters and sod-
omitic fornicators, and therefore
brings down a deluge upon them.

THEY have rejected my command-
ments and my yoke, worthless seed
has come up, not fearing God, and
they would not bow down to me, but
have begun to bow down to vain
gods, and denied my unity, and have
laden the whole earth with untruths,
offences, abominable lecheries
namely one with another, and all
manner of other unclean wicked-
nesses, which are disgusting to re-
late.

2 And therefore I will bring down a
deluge upon the earth and will des-
troy all men, and the whole earth
will crumble together into great
darkness.

CHAP. XXXV
God leaves one righteous man of
Enoch's tribe with his whole house,
who did God's pleasure according to
his will.

BEHOLD from their seed shall
arise another generation, much af-
terwards, but of them many will be
very insatiate.

2 He who raises that generation,
shall reveal to them the books of thy
handwriting, of thy fathers, to them
to whom he must point out the
guardianship of the world, to the
faithful men and workers of my
pleasure, who do not acknowledge
my name in vain.

3 And they shall tell another gener-
ation, and those others having read

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shall be glorified thereafter, more
than the first.

CHAP. XXXVI

God commanded Enoch to live on
earth thirty days, to give instruction
to his sons and to his children's
children. After thirty days he was
again taken on to heaven.

NOW, Enoch, I give thee the term,
of thirty days to spend in thy house,
and tell thy sons and all thy house-
hold, that all may hear from my face
what is told them by thee, that they
may read and understand, how there
is no other God but me.

2 And that they may always keep
my commandments, and begin to
read and take in the books of thy
handwriting.

3 And after thirty days I s all send
my angel for thee, and he will take
thee from earth and from thy sons to
me.

CHAP. XXXVII
Here God summons an angel.

AND the Lord called up one of the
older angels, terrible and menacing,
and placed him by me, in appear-
ance white as snow, and his hands
like ice, having the appearance of
great frost, and he froze my face,
because I could not endure the terror
of the Lord, just as it is not possible
to endure a stove's fire and the sun's
heat, and the frost of the air.

2 And the Lord said to me: 'Enoch,
if thy face be not frozen here, no
man will be able to behold thy face.'

CHAP. XXXVIII

Mathusal continued to have hope
and to await his father Enoch at his
couch day and night.

AND the Lord said to those men

who first led me up: 'Let Enoch go
down on to earth with you, and
await him till the determined day.'

2 And they placed me by night on
my couch.

3 And Mathusal expecting my com-
ing, keeping watch by day and by
night at my couch, was filled with
awe when he heard my coming, and
I told him, 'Let all my household
come together, that I tell them
everything.'

CHAP. XXXIX

Enoch's pitiful admonition to his
sons with weeping and great lament-
ation, as he spoke to them.

Oh my children, my beloved ones,
hear the admonition of your father,
as much as is according to the
Lord's will.

2 I have been let come to you to-
day, and announce to you, not from
my lips, but from the Lord's lips, all
that is and was and all that is now,
and all that will be till judge-
ment-day.

3 For the Lord has let me come to
you, you hear therefore the words of
my lips, of a man made big for you,
but I am one who has seen the
Lord's face, like iron made to glow
from fire it sends forth sparks and
burns,

4 You look now upon my eyes, the
eyes of a man big with meaning for
you, but I have seen the Lord's eyes,
shining like the sun's rays and
filling the eyes of man with awe.

5 You see now, my children, the
right hand of a man that helps you,
but I have seen the Lord's right hand
filling heaven as be helped me.

6 You see the compass of my work
like your own, but I have seen the
Lord's limitless and perfect com-

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pass, which has no end.

7 You hear the words of my lips, as
I heard the words of the Lord, like
great thunder incessantly with hurl-
ing of clouds.

8 And now, my children, hear the
discourses of the father of the earth,
how fearful and awful it is to come
before the face of the ruler of the
earth, how much more terrible and
awful it is to come before the face
of the ruler of heaven, the controller
of quick and dead, and of the heav-
enly troops. Who can endure that
endless pain?

CHAP. XL

Enoch admonishes his children
truly of all things from the Lord's
lips, how he saw and heard and
wrote down.

AND now, my children, I know all
things, for this is from the Lord's
lips, and this my eyes have seen,
from beginning to end.

2 I know all things, and have writ-
ten all things into books, the heav-
ens and their end, and their plenit-
ude, and all the armies and their
marchings.

3 I have measured and described
the stars, the great countless multi-
tude of them.

4 What man has seen their revolu-
tions, and their entrances? For not
even the angels see their number,
while I have written all their names.

5 And I measured the sun's circle,
and measured its rays, counted the
hours, I wrote down too all' things
that go over the earth I have written
the things that are nourished, and all
seed sown and unsown, which the
earth produces and all plants, and
every grass and every flower, and
their sweet smells, and their names,

and the dwelling-places of the
clouds, and their composition, and
their wings, and how they bear rain
and raindrops.

6 And I investigated all things, and
wrote the road of the thunder and of
the lightning, and they showed me
the keys and their guardians, their
rise, the way they go; it is let out in
measure (sc. gently) by a chain, lest
by a heavy chain and violence it
hurl down the angry clouds and des-
troy all things on earth.

7 I wrote the treasure-houses of the
snow, and the store-houses of the
cold and the frosty airs, and I ob-
served their season's key-holder, he
fills the clouds with them, and does
not exhaust the treasure-houses.

8 And I wrote the resting-places of
the winds and observed and saw how
their key-holders bear weigh-
ing-scales and measures; first, they
put them in one weighing-scale, then
in the other the weights and let them
out according to measure cunningly
over the whole earth, lest by heavy
breathing they make the earth to
rock.

9 And I measured out the whole
earth, its mountains, and all hills,
fields, trees, stones, rivers, all exist-
ing things I wrote down, the height
from earth to the seventh heaven,
and downwards to the very lowest
hell, and the judgement-place, and
the very great, open and weeping
hell.

10 And I saw how the prisoners are
in pain, expecting the limitless
judgement.

11 And I wrote down all those be-
ing judged by the judge, and all
their judgements (sc. sentences) and
all their works.

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CHAP. XLI

Of how Enoch lamented Adam's sin.

AND I saw all forefathers from all
time with Adam and Eva, and I
sighed and broke into tears and said
of the ruin of their dishonour:

2. 'Woe is me for my infirmity and
for that of my forefathers,' and
thought in my, heart and said:

3 'Blessed is the man who has not
been born or who has been born and
shall not sin before the Lord's face,
that he come not into this place, nor
bring the yoke of this place!

CHAP. XLII

Of how Enoch saw the key-holders
and guards of the gates of hell
standing.

SAW the key-holders and guards of
the gates of hell standing, like great
serpents, and their faces like extin-
guished lamps, and their eyes of
fire, their sharp teeth, and I saw all
the Lord's works, how they are
right, while the works of man are
some good, and others bad, and in
their works are known those who lie
evilly.

CHAP. LXIII

Enoch shows his children how he
measured and wrote out God's
judgements .

1 my children, measured and wrote
out every work and every measure
and every righteous judgement.

2 As one year is more honourable
than another, so is one man more
honourable than another, some for
great possessions, some for wisdom
of heart, some for particular intel-
lect, some for cunning, one for si-
lence of lip, another for cleanliness,
one for strength, another for comeli-
ness, one for youth, another for

sharp wit, one for shape of body, an-
other for sensibility, let it be heard
everywhere, but there is none better
than he who fears God, he shall be
more glorious in time to come.

CHAP. LXIV

Enoch instructs his sons, that they
revile not the face of man, small or
great.

THE Lord with his hands having
created man, in the likeness of his
own face, the Lord made him small
and great.

2 Whoever reviles the ruler's face,
and abhors the Lord's face, has des-
pised the Lord's face, and tie who
vents anger on any man without in-
jury, the Lord's great anger will cut
him down, he who spits on the face
of man reproachfully, will be cut
down at the Lord's great judgement.

3 Blessed is the man who does not
direct his heart with malice against
any man, and helps the injured and
condemned, and raises the broken
down, and shall do charity to the
needy, because on the day of the
great judgement every weight, every
measure and every makeweight will
be as in the market, that is to say
they are hung on scales and stand in
the market, and every one shall
learn his own measure, and accord-
ing to his measure shall take his re-
ward.

CHAP. LXV

God shows how he does not want
from men sacrifices, nor burnt-of-
ferings, but pure and contrite
hearts.

WHOEVER hastens to make offer-
ing before the Lord's face, the Lord
for his part will hasten that offering
by granting of his work.

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2 But whoever increases his lamp
before the Lord's face and make not
true judgement, the Lord will not in-
crease his treasure in the realm of
the highest.

3 When the Lord demands bread, or
candles, or flesh (sc. cattle), or any
other sacrifice, then that is nothing;
but God demands pure hearts, and
with all that only tests the heart of
man.

CHAP. LXVI

Of how an earthly ruler does not
accept from man abominable and
unclean gifts, then how much more
does God abominate unclean gifts,
but sends them away with wrath and
does not accept his gifts.

HEAR, my people, and take in the
words of my lips.

2 If any one bring any gifts to an
earthly ruler, and have disloyal
thoughts in his heart, and the ruler
know this, will he not be angry with
him, and not refuse his gifts, and
not give him over to judgement?

3 Or if one man make himself ap-
pear good to another by deceit of
tongue, but have evil in his heart,
then will not the other understand
the treachery of his heart, and him-
self be condemned, since his untruth
was plain to all?

4 And when the Lord shall send a
great light, then there will be judge-
ment for the just and the unjust, and
there no one shall escape notice.

CHAP. LXVII

Enoch instructs his sons from God's
lips, and hands them the handwrit-
ing of this book.

AND now, my children, lay thought
on your hearts, mark well the words
of your father, which are all come to

you from the Lord's lips,
p. 98

2 Take these books of your father's
handwriting and read them.

3 For the books are many, and in
them you will learn all the Lord's
works, all that has been from the be-
ginning of creation, and will be till
the end of time.

4 And if you will observe my hand-
writing, you will not sin against the
Lord; because there is no other ex-
cept the Lord, neither in heaven, nor
in earth, nor in the very lowest
places, nor in the one foundation.

5 The Lord has placed the founda-
tions in the unknown, and has
spread forth heavens visible and in-
visible; he fixed the earth on the
waters, and created countless
creatures, and who has counted the
water and the foundation of the un-
fixed, or the dust of the earth, or the
sand of the sea, or the drops of the
rain, or the morning dew, or the
wind's breathings? Who has filled
earth and sea, and the indissoluble
winter?

6 I cut the stars out of fire, and
decorated heaven, and put it in their
midst.

CHAP. LXVIII

Of the sun's passage along the sev-
en circles.

THAT the sun go along the seven
heavenly circles, which are the, ap-
pointment of one hundred and
eighty-two thrones, that it go down
on a short day, and again one hun-
dred and eighty-two, that it go down
on a big day, and he has two thrones
on which he rests, revolving hither
and thither above the thrones of the
months, from the seventeenth day of
the month Tsivan it goes down to the
month Thevan, from the seventeenth

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of Thevan it goes up.

3 And thus it goes close to the
earth, then the earth is and makes
grow its fruit, and when it goes
away, then the earth is sad, and trees
and all fruits have no florescence.

4 All this he measured, with good
measurement of hours, and fixed a
measure by his wisdom, of the vis-
ible and the invisible.

5 From the invisible he made all
things visible, himself being invis-
ible.

6 Thus I make known to you, my
children, and distribute the books to
your children, into all your genera-
tions, and amongst the nations who
shall have the sense to fear God, let
them receive them, and may they
come to love them more than any
food or earthly sweets, and read
them and apply themselves to them.

7 And those who understand not the
Lord, who fear not God, who accept
not, but reject, who do not receive
them (sc. the books), a terrible
judgement awaits these.

8 Blessed is the man who shall bear
their yoke and shall drag them
along, for he shall be released on
the day of the great judgement.

CHAP. LXIV
Enoch instructs his sons not to
swear either by heaven or earth,
and shows God's promise, even in
the mother's womb.

1 SWEAR to you, my children, but I
swear not by any oath, neither by
heaven nor by earth, nor by any oth-
er creature which God created.

2 The Lord said: 'There is no oath
in me, nor injustice, but truth.'

3 If there is no truth in men, let
them swear by the words 'yea, yea,'
or else, 'nay, nay!

4 And I swear to you, yea, yea, that
there has been no man in his
mother's womb, but that already be-
fore, even to each one there is a
place prepared for the repose of the
soul, and a measure fixed how much
it is intended that a man be tried in
this world.

5 Yea, children, deceive not
yourselves, for there has been previ-
ously prepared a place for every
soul of man.

CHAP. L

Of how none born on earth can re-
main hidden nor his work remain
concealed, but he (sc. God) bids us
be meek, to endure attack and in-
sult, and not to offend widows and
orphans.

1 HAVE put everyman's work in
writing and none born on earth can
remain hidden nor his works remain
concealed.

2 I see all things.

3 Now therefore, my children, in
patience and meekness spend the
number of your days, that you inher-
it endless life.

4 Endure for the sake of the Lord
every wound, every injury, every
evil word and attack.

5 If ill-requitals befall you, return
them not either to neighbour or en-
emy, because the Lord will return
them for you and be your avenger on
the day of great judgement, that
there be no avenging here among
men.

6 Whoever of you spends gold or
silver for his brother's sake, he will
receive ample treasure in the world
to come.

7 Injure not widows nor orphans
nor strangers, lest God's wrath come
upon you.

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CHAP. LI

Enoch instructs his sons, that they
hide not treasures in the earth, but
bids them give alms to the poor.

STRETCH out your hands to the
poor according to your strength.

2 Hide not your silver in the earth.

3 Help the faithful man in afflic-
tion, and affliction will not find you
in the time of your trouble.

4 And every grievous and cruel
yoke that come upon you bear all for
the sake of the Lord, and thus you
will find your reward in the day of
judgement.

5 It is good to go morning, midday,
and evening into the Lord's dwell-
ing, for the glory of your creator.

6 Because every breathing thing
glorifies him, and every creature
visible and invisible returns him
praise.

CHAP. LII

God instructs his faithful, how they
are to praise his name.

BLESSED is the man who opens his
lips in praise of God of Sabaoth and
praises the Lord with his heart.

2 Cursed every man who opens his
lips for the bringing into contempt
and calumny of his neighbour, be-
cause he brings God into contempt.

3 Blessed is he who opens his lips
blessing and praising God.

4 Cursed is he before the Lord all
the days of his life, who opens his
lips to curse and abuse.

5 Blessed is he who blesses all the
Lord's works.

6 Cursed is he who brings the
Lord's creation into contempt.

7 Blessed is he who looks down and
raises the fallen.

8 Cursed is he who looks to and is

eager for the destruction of what is
not his.

9 Blessed is he who keeps the
foundations of his fathers made firm
from the beginning.

10 Cursed is he who perverts the
decrees of his forefathers.

11 Blessed is he who implants
peace and love.

12 Cursed is he who disturbs those
that love their neighbours.

13 Blessed is he who speaks with
humble tongue and heart to all.

14 Cursed is he who speaks peace
with his tongue, while in his heart
there is no peace but a sword.

15 For all these things will be laid
bare in the weighing-scales and in
the books, on the day of the great
judgement.

CHAP. LIII

{Let us not say: 'Our father is be-
fore God, he will stand forward for
us on the day of judgement, ' for
there father cannot help son, nor yet
son father.]

AND now, my children, do not say:
'Our father is standing before God,
and is praying for our sins,' for
there is there no helper of any man
who has sinned.

2 You see how I wrote all works of
every man, before his creation, all
that is done amongst all men for all
time, and none can tell or relate my
handwriting, because the Lord sees
all the imaginings of man, how they
are vain, where they lie in the treas-
ure-houses of the heart.

3 And now, my children, mark well
all the words of your father, that I
tell you, lest you regret, saying:
'Why did our father not tell us?'

CHAP. LIV

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Enoch instructs his sons, that they
should hand the books to others
also.

AT that time, not understanding this
let these books which I have given
you be for an inheritance of your
peace.

2 Hand them to all who want them,
and instruct them, that they may see
the Lord's very great and marvellous
works.

CHAP. LV

Here Enoch shows his sons, telling
them with tears: 'My children, the
hour has approached for me to go
up on to heaven; behold, the angels
are standing before me. '

MY children, behold, the day of my
term and the time nave approached.

2 For the angels who shall go with
me are standing before me and urge
me to my departure from you; they
are standing here on earth, awaiting
what has been told them.

3 For to-morrow I shall go up on to
heaven, to the uppermost Jerusalem
to my eternal inheritance.

4 Therefore I bid you do before the
Lord's face all his good pleasure.

CHAP. LVI

Methosalam asks of his father
blessing, that he (sc. Methosalam)
may make him (sc. Enoch) food to
eat.

METHOSALAM having answered
his father Enoch, said: 'What is
agreeable to thy eyes, father, that I
may make before thy face, that thou
mayst bless our dwellings, and thy
sons, and that thy people may be
made glorious through thee, and
then that thou mayst depart thus, as
the Lord said?,

2 Enoch answered to his son Meth-

osalam and said: 'Hear, child, from
the time when the Lord anointed me
with the ointment of his glory, there
has been no food in me, and my soul
remembers not earthly enjoyment,
neither do I want anything earthly!

CHAP. LVII

Enoch bade his son Methosalam. to
summon all his brethren.

MY child Methosalam, summon all
thy brethren and our household and
the elders of the people, that I may
talk to them and depart, as is
planned for me.'

2 And Methosalam. made haste, and
summoned his brethren, Regim, Ri-
man, Uchan, Chermion, Gaidad, and
all the elders of the people before
the face of his father Enoch; and he
blessed them, and said to them:

CHAP. LVIII
Enoch's instruction to his sons.
LISTEN to me, my children, to-day.

2 In those days when the Lord came
down on to earth for Adam's sake,
and visited all his creatures, which
he created himself, after all these he
created Adam, and the Lord called
all the beasts of the earth, all the
reptiles, and all the birds that soar
in the air, and brought them all be-
fore the face of our father Adam.

3 And Adam gave the names to all
things living on earth.

4 And the Lord appointed him ruler
over all, and subjected to him all
things under his hands, and made
them dumb and made them dull that
they be commanded of man, and be
in subjection and obedience to him.

5 Thus also the Lord created every
man lord over all his possessions.

6 The Lord will not judge a single
soul of beast for man's sake, but ad-

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judges the souls of men to their
beasts in this world; for men have a
special place.

7 And as every soul of man is ac-
cording to number, similarly beasts
will not perish, nor all souls of
beasts which the Lord created, till
the great judgement, and they will
accuse man, if he feed them ill.

CHAP. LIX

Enoch instructs his sons wherefore
they may not touch beef because of
what comes from it.

WHOEVER defiles the soul of
beasts, defiles his own soul.

2 For man brings clean animals to
make sacrifice for sin, that he may
have cure of his soul.

3 And if they bring for sacrifice
clean animals, and birds, man has
cure, he cures his soul.

4 All is given you for food, bind it
by the four feet, that is to make
good the cure, he cures his soul.

5 But whoever kills beast without
wounds, kills his own soul and de-
files his own flesh.

6 And he who does any beast any
injury whatsoever, in secret, it is
evil practice, and he defiles his own
soul.

CHAP. LX

He who does injury to soul of man,
does injury to his own soul, and
there is no cure for his flesh, nor
pardon for all time. How it is not
fitting to kill man neither by weapon
nor by tongue.

HE who works the killing of a
man's soul, kills his own soul, and
kills his own body, and there is no
cure for him for all time.

2 He who puts a man in any snare,
shall stick in it himself, and there is

no cure for him for all time.

3 He who puts a man in any vessel,
his retribution will not be wanting at
the great judgement for all time.

4 He who works crookedly or
speaks evil against any soul, will
not make justice for himself for all
time.

CHAP. LXI

Enoch instructs his sons to keep
themselves from injustice and often
to stretch forth hands to the poor, to
give a share of their labours.

AND now, my children, keep your
hearts from every injustice, which
the Lord hates. Just as a man asks
(sc. something) for his own soul
from God, so let him do to every
living soul, because I know all
things, how in the great time (sc. to
come) are many mansions prepared
for men, good for the good, and bad
for the bad, without number many.

2 Blessed are those who enter the
good houses, for in the bad (sc.
houses) there is no peace .nor return
(sc. from them).

3 Hear, my children, small and
great! When man puts a good
thought in his heart, brings gifts
from his labours before the Lord's
face and his hands made them not,
then the Lord will turn away his
face from the labour of his hand,
and he (sc. man) cannot find the la-
bour of his hands.

4 And if his hands made it, but his
heart murmur, and his heart cease
not making murmur incessantly, he
has not any advantage.

CHAP. LXII

Of how it is fitting to bring one's
gift with faith, because there is no
repentance after death.

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BLESSED is the man who in his pa-
tience brings his gifts with faith be-
fore the Lord's face, because he will
find forgiveness of sins.

2 But if he take back his words be-
fore the time, there is no repentance
for him; and if the time pass and he
do not of his own will what is prom-
ised, there is no repentance after
death.

3 Because every work which man
does before the time, is all deceit
before men, and sin before God.

CHAP. LXIII

Of how not to despise the poor, but
to share with them equally, lest thou
be murmured against before God.

WHEN man clothes the naked and
fills the hungry, he will find reward
from God.

2 But if his heart murmur, he com-
mits a double evil: ruin of himself
and of that which he gives; and for
him there will be no finding of re-
ward on account of that.

3 And if his own heart is filled with
his food and his own flesh (sc.
clothed) with his clothing he com-
mits contempt, and forfeit all his en-
durance of poverty, and will not find
reward of his good deeds.

4 Every proud and magniloquent
man is hateful to the Lord, and
every false speech, clothed in un-
truth; it will be cut with the blade of
the sword of death, and thrown into
the fire, and shall burn for all time.'

CHAP. XLIV
Of how the Lord calls up Enoch,
and people took counsel to go and
kiss him at the place called
Achuzan.

WHEN Enoch had spoken these
words to his sons, all people far and

near heard how the Lord was calling
Enoch. They took counsel together:

2 'Let us go and kiss Enoch' and
two thousand men came together and
came to the place Achuzan where
Enoch was, and his sons.

3 And the elders of the people, the
whole assembly, came and bowed
down and began to kiss Enoch and
said to him:

4 'Our father Enoch, be thou
blessed of the Lord, the eternal
ruler, and now bless thy sons and all
the people, that we may be glorified
to-day before thy face.

5 For thou shalt be glorified before
the Lord's face for all time, since
the Lord chose thee, rather than all
men on earth, and designated thee
writer of all his creation, visible and
invisible, and redeemer of the sins
of man, and helper of thy house-
hold.'

CHAP. LXV
Of Enoch's instruction of his sons.
AND Enoch answered all his people
saying: 'Hear, my children, before
that all creatures were created, the
Lord created the visible and invis-
ible things.

2 And as much time as there was
and went past, understand that after
that he created man in the likeness
of his own form, and put into him
eyes to see, and ears to hear, and
heart to reflect, and intellect where-
with to deliberate.

3 And the Lord saw all man's
works, and created all his creatures,
and divided time, from time he fixed
the years, and from the years he ap-
pointed the months, and from the
months he appointed the days, and
of days he appointed seven.

4 And in those he appointed the

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hours, measured them out exactly,
that man might reflect on time and
count years, months, and hours,
their alternation, beginning, and
end, and that he might count his own
life, from the beginning until death,
and reflect on his sin and write his
work bad and good; because no
work is hidden before the Lord, that
every man might know his works
and never transgress all his com-
mandments, and keep my handwrit-
ing from generation to generation.

5 When all creation visible and in-
visible, as the Lord created it, shall
end, then every man goes to the
great judgement, and then all time
shall perish, and the years, and
thenceforward there will be neither
months nor days nor hours, they will
be stuck together and will not be
counted.

6 There will be one aeon, and all
the righteous who shall escape the
Lord's great judgement, shall be col-
lected in the great aeon, for the
righteous the great aeon will begin,
and they will live eternally, and then
too there will be amongst them
neither labour, nor sickness, nor hu-
miliation, nor anxiety, nor need, nor
violence, nor night, nor darkness,
but. great light.

7 And they shall have a great indes-
tructible wall, and a paradise bright
and incorruptible, for all corruptible
things shall pass away, and there
will be eternal life.

CHAP. LXVI

Enoch instructs his sons and all the
elders of the people, how they are to
walk with terror and trembling be-
fore the Lord, and serve him alone
and not bow down to idols, but to
God, who created heaven and earth

and. every creature, and to his im-
age.

AND now, my children, keep your
souls from all injustice, such as the
Lord hates.

2 Walk before his face with terror
and trembling and serve him alone.

3 Bow down to the true God, not to
dumb idols, but bow down to his
picture, and bring all just offerings
before the Lord's face. The Lord
hates what is unjust.

4 For the Lord sees all things; when
man takes thought in his heart, then
he counsels the intellects, and every
thought is always before the Lord,
who made firm the earth and put all
creatures on it.

5 If you look to heaven, the Lord is
there; if you take thought of the
sea's deep and all the under-earth,
the Lord is there.

6 For the Lord created all things.
Bow not down to things made by
man, leaving the Lord of all cre-
ation, because no work can remain
hidden before the Lord's face.

7 Walk, my children, in longsuffer-
ing, in meekness, honesty, in pro-
vocation, in grief, in faith and in
truth, in reliance on promises, in ill-
ness, in abuse, in wounds, in
temptation, in nakedness, in priva-
tion, loving one another, till you go
out from this age of ills, that you
become inheritors of endless time.

8 Blessed are the just who shall es-
cape the great judgement, for they
shall shine forth more than the sun
sevenfold, for in this world the sev-
enth part is taken off from all, light,
darkness, food, enjoyment, sorrow,
paradise, torture, fire, frost, and
other things; he put all down in
writing, that you might read and un-
derstand.'

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CHAP. LXVII

The Lord let out darkness on to
earth and covered the people and
Enoch, and he was taken up on high,
and light came again in the heaven.

WHEN Enoch had talked to the
people, the Lord sent out darkness
on to the earth, and there was dark-
ness, and it covered those men
standing with Enoch, and they took
Enoch up on to the highest heaven,
where the Lord is; and he received
him and placed him before his face,
and the darkness went off from the
earth, and light came again.

2 And the people saw and under-
stood not how Enoch had been
taken, and glorified God, and found
a roll in which was traced 'the invis-
ible God'; and all went to their
homes.

the sons of Enoch, made haste, and
erected an altar at the place called
Achuzan, whence and where Enoch
had been taken up to heaven.

7 And they took sacrificial oxen
and summoned all people and sacri-
ficed the sacrifice before the Lord's
face.

8 All people, the elders of the
people and the whole assembly came
to the feast and brought gifts to the
sons of Enoch.

9 And they made a great feast, re-
joicing and making merry three
days, praising God, who had given
them such a sign through Enoch,
who had found favour with him, and
that they should hand it on to their
sons from generation to generation,
from age to age.

10 Amen.

CHAP. LXVIII
ENOCH was born on the sixth day
of the month Tsivan, and lived three
hundred and sixty-five years.

2 He was taken up to heaven on the
first day of the month Tsivan and re-
mained in heaven sixty days.

3 He wrote all these signs of all
creation, which the Lord created,
and wrote three hundred and six-
ty-six books, and handed them over
to his sons and remained on earth
thirty days, and was again taken up
to heaven on the sixth day of the
month Tsivan, on the very day and
hour when he was born.

4 As every man's nature in this life
is dark, so are also his conception,
birth, and departure from this life.

5 At what hour he was conceived,
at that hour he was born, and at that
hour too he died.

6 Methosalam and his brethren, all

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